Combined stuffing-box, gasket, valve, and spring.



G.L.KENNEDY. COMBINED STUPFING BOX, GASKET, VALVE, AND SPRING. I APPLICATION FILED SEPT. 2, 1909. 957 347 Patented May 10,1910.

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GUY L. KENNEDY, OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, ASSIG-NOR 'IO NATIONAL OAR- BONATED LIQUID ('10., OF SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA, A CORPOTION OF CALI- FORNIA.

COMBINED STUFFING-BOXQGASKET, VALVE, AND seams.

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Specificationof Letters Patent.

Application filed September 2, 1909. Serial No. 515,972. V

To all whom it may concern: 4

Be it known that I, GUY L. KENNEDY, a citizen of the United States, residing at San Francisco, in the county of San Francisco and State of California, have invented new and useful Improvements in Combined Stuffing Boxes, Gaskets, J Valves, and Springs, of which the following is a specification.

The object of the present invention is to provide a cheap and eflective device'for controlling the passage of fluids, and particularly of gases under high pressure.

The device is herein shown as in use with a valve, but it may also be used with other movable elements, as a piston.

Valves for use with gases under high pressure are in general expensive on account of the skilled andcareful workmanship necessary'in their manufacture to prevent leak- The object of the present invention-is to provide a valve which can be so used and can yet be made at a very low. cost,

In the accompanying drawing Figure 1 is a vertical section of the device, showing the valve closed; Fig. 2 is a similar View of the device, showing the valve open, Fig. 3 is a perspective view of a combined stufiing box, gasket, and spring detached; Fig. 4' is a view similar to Fig. 1 of amodified form of the invention.

Referring to the drawing, and particularly. to the form of the invention shown in Figs. 1 and 2, 1 indicates a casing, open at one end, generally of a cylindrical form, to which are connected two pipes, 2, 3,'one of said pipes, as 2, being connected to the-side of the casing, and the. other, as 3-; to the center of its closed enil. Either of these pipes may be used as the inlet pipe and the other as the outlet, and, for convenience of description, the pipe 2 will besupposed to be the outlet pipe and pipe 3 the inlet pipe. Surrounding the inner end of-the inlet pipe is-formed', upon the end of the casing, a circular wall or flange 4, and screwed upon the open end of the casing is' a cap 5, through which passes centrally a stem 6, connected, in any suitable manner, here'being shown as screwed, to a valve 7 faced with rubber and adapted to be pressed against the edge of the 'dependin wall at and thereby close the pas sage lea ing from the inlet to the outlet pipe. Surroundin the stem 6 is a conoidal Watent'ed May MD, 1916?.

shell 8 formed 0 rubber of considerable thickness, and therefore having considerable resilient force, said shell having at its base an outwardly. extending flange 9'. Said flange is clamped between the 'cap 5 and the end (if the casing and the shell is centrally apertured to permit the valve stem to pass therethrough, the rubber of the shell fitting tightly around said stem and being pressed by its resiliency against the outer surface of the valve. Sa'id rubber shell performs several functions :-It takes the place of a spring, pressing the valve to its seat; it, forms'a gasket preventing the escape of any as from the casing, because its flange is 'rmly clamped between the valve casing and the cap;-an its central portion fits with an air-tight fit around the valve stem and prevents the escapeof gas at-the center, and thus acts as a movable stuffing box.

In the form of the invention shown in Fig; 4, no separate valve is used, but the valve stem is formed with a head 10 around which the apex of the cpnoidal shell, which is not now perforated, is molded, by which means said apex always moves with the valve stem. Said apex is of such form that, when the valve stemis not withdrawn, the ape): closes the end of the pipe 3and acts as a valve. y

With either form of the device here shown, the leakageof gas is absolutely prevented, even under very high pressure, and yet the device is very cheap, both in cost of material and workmanship.

I claim 1. In combination wit-ha casing provided with means for admitting and exhausting fluid therefrom, a device movable in said K casing and having a stem, and a soft rubber conoidal, shell havin portion fitting air tight .around said stem, substantially as described.

its base secured with an air-tight fit to sai casing, and itscentralcasing, and a central device within the casing f around, which the shell fits air-tight and which is operatively connected to said shell to 'nfove therewith; substantially as described. L A

3. In combination with a casing formed to provide a passage for theflow of gas, a

valve for closing said passage, comprisin a soft rubber shell having its edge secure air-tight to said casing, a stem around which the center of the shell fits air-tight, and which is connected to said center to withdraw the same with the.movement of said stem, and means moving with the shell for closing. said passage, substantially as de-. scribed. I

4. In combination with a casing formed to provide a passage for fluid, a shell having its edge secured to said casing, a central stem around which said shell fits air-tight, said witnesses.

shell having a valve movable therewith and with the stem to close said passage, and the 15 thickness of said shell being sufiicient to provide force from the resilience of the rubber to hold. said valve to its seat and close said passage, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set 20 my hand in the presence of two subscribing GUY L. KENNEDY. Witnesses:

FRANCIS M. WRIGHT, D. BRIQHARDS. 

